Local Obits for Sun. Mar 10th, 2013
Forsyth
John Lawrence Merritt was born at Emory Hospital and raised in Cumming, GA. He loved the outdoors, enjoying hunting, fishing and trapping. He was a member of Troop 39 of the Boy ...
Gwinnett
Patti Littell Williamson, age 49, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Sunday, March 10, 2013. She is survived by her husband of twenty-two and one half years, John B. Williamson, Suga ...
Habersham
Elder Marvin Loudermilk, age 76, of Mt. Airy, Georgia, passed on Sunday, March 10, 2013. Elder Loudermilk was born on July 26, 1936, in Habersham County, Georgia, to the late Ben L ...
Hall
Mr. Bobby Ray Grindle, 71, of Gainesville, GA. passed away on Sunday, March 10, 2013. Born on September 25, 1941, he was a lifelong resident of Hall County. He was the son of the ...
Mrs. Bonnie Louise Elliott Lovell age 82 of Gainesville passed away on Sunday March 10, 2013 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness. Funeral services are ...
Lillie Belle Miller Amerson, age 65 of Lula, passed away Sunday, March 10, 2013, at her residence. Born in Hall County on June 23, 1947, she was a daughter of the late John and Lil ...
Rabun
James Richard Lesley, 73 of Tiger GA passed away on Sunday March 10th 2013. He was born in Coral Gables Florida and was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Glenn Lesley. He is ...
Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty, has died
1st black Georgia senator elected post-Reconstruction dies
A former Georgia state senator who was the first black lawmaker elected to the upper chamber after Reconstruction has died
'Maude' co-star, character actor Bill Macy dies at 97
Bill Macy, foil to Bea Arthur's feminist wife in '70s sitcom 'Maude,' dies at 97
Retired, longtime Gainesville school official dies
A retired, longtime Gainesville school official, former Asst. Supt. Otis Ellenberg, has died.
Rep. Elijah Cummings was a sharecropper's son, took on Trump
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings has died to complications from longstanding health challenges, his office said. He was 68.
Ginger Baker, Cream's volatile drummer, dies at 80
Ginger Baker, Cream's volatile and propulsive drummer, dies at 80
Diahann Carroll, Oscar-nominated, pioneering actress, dies
Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as "Julia," has died at 84.
Ex-French President Chirac, who stood up to US, dies at 86
Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France's role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at age 86
